[OSM-dev] osmosis bz2 performance

[Brett Henderson]

Stefan Baebler wrote:
> I've added the "-" alias to the other xml file reading and writing tasks:
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/changeset/6844
> Now it is possible to do
> wget -O - http://... |  bzcat -c | osmosis --rx - --bb ... --wx - | 
> bzip2 > excerpt.osm.bz2
> which performs considerably better than Apache's bzip implementation 
> in Java, which is built into osmosis.
>
> Enjoy,
> Stefan
>
Excellent, thanks.